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Assassination  of  Lincoln 

By  Rev.  Charles  Chiniquy. 

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'2  , 

ASSASSINATION  OF  LINCOLN. 

(From  "Fifty  Years  in  the  Church  of  Rome.") 
Charles  Chiniquy  was  born  July  30,  1809,  at  Kamoraska,  Canada, 
Five  years  later  his  parents  emigrated  to  Murray  Bay,  at  which  place  he 
received  his  early  education  at  the  hands  of  his  mother,  there  beiftg  no 
schools  located  there  at  that  time.  The  Bible,  printed  in  Latin  and  French, 
was  the  book  in  which  he  v.'as  taught  to  read,  and  it  was  from  this  cir- 
cumstance that  M.  Chiniquy  learned  so  much  of  it,  and,  when  the  time 
came  when  he  could  no  longer  be  a  Romanist  without  giving  up  the  Bible, 
he  chose  to  leave  the  priesthood.  It  was  his  devotion  and  love  of  the 
Bible  that  made  his  life  as  a  priest  of  Roman  paganism  one  that  was  in- 
cessantly full  of  toil,  hardship,  trials  and  peril.  His  history  reads  like  a 
romance.  At  all  times  and  places  he  was  discovering  where  the  Bible  and 
the  church  conflicted,  and,  in  his  loyalty  to  the  Book  his  mother  taught 
him  to  read,  .he  was  ever  being  placed  in  antagonistic  positions  with  his 
Gccliastical  superiors  and  his  fellow  priests.  There  was  in  all  his  experience 
as  a  priest  one  broad  and  grand  work,  that  of  becoming  the  foremost  figure 
In  the  cause  of  temperance  in  Canada,  and  he  was  so  successful  in  that 
work  that  he  was  the  means  of  reforming  not  only  the  various  parishes 
he  successfully  had  charge  of  as  a  priest,  but  the  neighboring  parishes  and 
priests,  and  lastly  his  Bishop  as  well.  This  work  was  of  so  pronounced  a 
character  that  he  was  officially  named  by  the  Bishop  of  Montreal. 

*'The  Apostle  of  Temperance  of  Canada."   

These  facts  in  Mr.  Chiniquy's  early  history  prove  incontestably  that 
he  was  a  man  of  unswerving  devotion  to  what  he  believed  to  be  right.  He 
had  the  courage  of  his  convictions  so  as  to  act  them  out;  in  a  word,  he 
was  all  that  goes  to  make  a  brave  and  upright  man.  It  is  no  wonder,  then, 
that,  after  his  signal  success  in  the  cause  of  temperance,  he  was  selected 
to  be  the  standard  bearer  for  the  French  Canadian  Catholic  colonies  that 
were  designed  to  be  planted  upon  the  broad  prairies  of  Illinois.  The  Bishop 
of  Chicago  invited  him  to  carry  out  this  work,  and  Mr.  Chiniquy  accepted 
the  task.  Shortly  after  arriving  in  Illinois,  he  selected  the  site  of  what  is 
now  the  town  of  St.  Anne,  his  present  home,  as  the  best  place  for  a  colony, 
and  inside  of  ten  days  after  fifty  families  located  on  the  spot.  His  great 
success  aroused  the  jealousy  of  some  disreputable  priests,,  who  sought  to 
create  trouble  between  him  and  his  bishop  by  writing  letters  of  a  defamatory 
nature  and  attributing  their  authorship  to  Mr.  Chiniquy.  The  priest  who 
wrote  these  letters  was  detected  and  Mr.  Chiniquy  was  exonerated.  The 
bishop  finding  so 

Much  Wickedness  Among  His  Priests, 

resigned,  and  a  new  bishop.  Rev.  O'Regan  was  appointed  in  his  place.  This 
bishop  was  influenced  against  Mr.  Chiniquy,  however,  successfully,  and  he 
forbade  Mr.  Chiniquy  to  circulate  ,the  Bible.  Bishop  O'Regan,  becoming 
guilty  of  depriving  the  French  Catholics  of  their  church,  etc.,  Mr.  Chiniquy 
remonstrated,  and  the  bishop  did  all  in  his  power  to  remove  him.  In  this 
the  bishop  was  unsuccessful,  for  he  could  not  find  anything  against  Mr. 
Chiniquy's  character.  Other  causes  also  led  to  a  rupture,  such  as  trying  to 
make  Mr.  Chiniquy  associate  with  dissolute  and  drunken  priests.     Failing 


In  all  these  things,  a  plot  was  concocted  against  Mr.  Chiniquy  and  he  was 
several  times  brought  before  the  cripiinal  courts;  each  time,  however,  Ml*. 
Chiniquy  defeated  his  enemies.  Lastly,  a  charge  was  brought  against  him 
of  a  terrible  character  and  the  case  was  set  to  be  tried  in  a  distant  county 
where  Mr.  Chiniquy  was  unknown.  Instead  of  being  tried  at  Kankakee 
where  he  was  known,  a  change  of  venue  was  brought  to  the  court  of  Ur- 
bana,  in  champaign  County,  Mr.  Chiniquy  in  the  meantime  being  held  as  a 
prisoner,  under  bail,  by  the  sheriff.  In  this  "dark  hour"  a  stranger  advised 
him  to  secure  the  services  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  meeting  with  a  favor- 
able response  from  his  lawyers,  he  telegraphed  Mr.  Lincoln  if  he  would 
defend  his  honor  and  his  life  at  the  next  May  term  of  the  court  at  Urbana. 
In  a  few  minutes  Mr.  Lincoln  replied: 

"Yes,  I  will  defend  your  honor  and  your  life  at  the  next  May  term 
at  Urbana. 

ABRAHAM  LINCILN." 
Of  the  first  trial  at  Urbana,  Mr.  Chiniquy  says:     "I  spent  six  long  days 
at  Urbana  as  a  criminal.     During  t-he  greater  part  of  that  time  all  that  a 
man  language  can     express  of  abuse  and  insult  was  heaped  on  my  poor 
head.  ...  I  never  heard  anything  like. 

The  Eloquence  of  Abraham  liincoln 
when  he  demolished  the  testimony  of  the  two  perjured  priests^  who,  with  a 
dozen  other  false  witnesses,  had  sworn  against  me."  Through  the  mistake 
of  having  one  Roman  Catholic  on  the  jury,  it  was  unable  to  agree — the  Cath- 
olic being  like  the  man  who  never  met  eleven  men  before.  And  the  case 
was  again  set  for  trial  for  the  following  October. 

Now  came  the  greatest  trial  of  Mr.  Chiniquy's  life.  His  enemies,  rich, 
powerful,  high  in  position,  scrupled  at  no  means  and  left  no  stone  unturned 
to  cruch  him.  At  the  last  trial  so  positive  was  the  perjured  evidence  that 
when  it  was  once  heard  the  Chicago  papers  were  telegraphed  that  he  would 
be  convicted.  Yet  this  very  circumstance  saved  Mr.  Chiniquy's  being  a  vic- 
tim to  his  foes.  A  lady  in  Chicago  reading  the  papers  said  it  would  be  too 
bad,  for  she  knew  Mr.  Chiniquy  was  innocent.  Not  being  able  to  go  to  Ur- 
bana, her  husband  prevailed  on  another  lady  who  knew  the  same  facts  to  go 
in  her  place.  Upon  her  arrival  the  whole  plot  was  exposed  that  Mr.  Chini- 
quy was  saved — the  witnesses  leaving  town  before  court  opened  the  second 
day  for  fear  of  being  lynched.  Indeed,  so  grave  was  the  case  and  so  strong 
the  evidence  that  at  the  close  of  the  first  day  Mr.  Lincoln  said  to  Mr. 
Chiniquy,  "The  only  way  to  be  sure  of  a  favorable  verdict  tomorrow  is,  that 
God  Almighty  would  take  your  part  and  show  your  innocence!  Go  to  Him 
and  pray,  for  He  alone  can  save  you."  Mr.  Chiniquy  went  to  his  room,  but 
not  to  sleep,  as  we  may  readily  suppose,  but  to  pray.  When  the  lady 
arrived  from  Chicago  she  went  direct  to  Mr.  Lincoln  and  told  him  all.  At 
three  o'clock  Mr.  Lincoln  told  Mr.  Chiniquy  he  was  saved.  At  the  opening 
of  the  court  the  next  morning  the  prosecution  withdrew  the  case,  acknowl- 
edging the  innocence  of  Mr.  Chiniquy.  "Mr.  Lincoln,"  says  Mr.  Chiniquy, 
"having  accepted  that  reparation  in  my  name,  made  a  short,  but  one  of  the 
most  admirable  speeches  I  have  ever  heard,  on  the  cruel  injuries  I  had 
suffered,  from  my  merciless  persecutors,  and  denounced 

The  Rascality  of  the  Priests 
who  had  perjured  themselves  with  such  terrible  stories  that  it  had  been  wl8# 


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on  their  part  to  fly  away  and  disappear  before  the  opening  of  the  court,  for 
the  whole  city  was  ransacked  for  them  by  hundreds."  Abraham  Lincoln 
had  now  defended  Mr.  Chiniquy  for  more  than  a  year,  yet  such  was  the 
friendship  he  acquired  for  Mr.  Chiniquy  that  he  would  not  accept  over 
fifty  dollars  for  his  services,  writing  a  note  for  that  amount  for  Mr.  Chini- 
quy to  sign.  We  here  quote  from  "Fifty  Years  in  the  Church  of  Rome," 
page  663-4: 

"When  Abraham  Lincoln  was  writing  the  due-bill,  the  relaxation  of  the 
great  strain  upon  my  mind,  and  the  great  kindness  of  my  benefactor  and 
defended  in  charging  me  so  little  for  such  a  service,  and  the  terrible  pre- 
sentiment that  he  would  pay  with  his  life  for  what  he  had  done  for  me, 
caused  me  to  break  into  sobs  and  tears. 

"As  Mr.  Lincoln  had  finished  writing  the  due-bill,  he  turned  round  to 
me  and  said,  "Father  Chiniquy,  what  are  you  crying  for?  Ought  you  not 
to  be  the  most  happy  man  alive/  You  have  beaten  your  enemies  and  gained 
the  most  glorious  victory,  and  you  will  come  out  of  all  your  troubles  in 
triumph.' 

Mr.  Lincoln,"  I  answered,  "allow  me  to  tell  you  that  the  joy  I  should 
naturally  feel  for  such  a  victory  is  destroyed  in  my  mind  by  the  fear  of  what 
it  may  cost  you.  There  were  then  in  the  crowd  not  less  than  ten  or  twelve 
Jesuits  from  Chicago  and  St.  Louis,  who  came  to  hear  my  sentence  of  con- 
demnation to  the  penitentiary.  But  it  was  on  their  heads  that  have  brought 
the  thunders  of  heaven  and  earth!  Nothing  can  be  compared  to  the  ex- 
pression of  their  rage  against  you,  when  you  not  only  wrenched  me  from 
their  cruel  hands,  but  you  were  making  the  walls  of  the  court  house  tremble 
under  the  awful  and  superhuman  eloquent  denunciation  of  their  infamy, 
diabolical  malice  and  total  want  of  Christian  and  human  principle  in  the 
plot  they  had  formed  for  my  destruction.  What  troubles  my  soUl  just  now 
and  drav.'s  my  tears  is,  that  it  seems  to  me  that  I  have  read  your  sentence 
©f  death  in  their  bloody  eyes.  How  many  other  noble  victims  have  fallen  at 
meiv  feet!" 

He  tried  to  divert  my  mind,  at  first  with  a  joke.     'Sign  this,'  said  he, 
'it  will  be  my  warrant  of  death." 

But  after  I  had  signed  he  became  more  solemn,  and  said,  'I  know  that 
^oirfults  never  forget  nor  forsake.  But  man  must  not  care  how  nor  when 
he  dies,  provided  he  dies  at  the  post  of  honor  and  duty,"  and  he  left  me. 

Shortly  after  these  occurrences  Mr.  Chiniquy  and  all  his  people  with 
him 

Withdrew  From  the  Catholic  Communion, 
and  to  this  day,  in  the  town  of  St.  Anne,  Illinois,  are  pastor  and  people 
faithful  to  each  other. 

We  must  now  introduce  Mr.  Chiniquy's  evidence  regarding  the  assis- 
<^nation  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  in  the  meantime  had  been  elected  Presi- 
dent, and  see  how  his  fears  were  only  too  sadly  realized. 

At  the  end  of  August,  having  known  from  a  Roman  Catholic  priest 
whom,  by  the  mercy  of  God,  I  had  persuaded  to  leave  the  errors  of  popery, 
that  there  was  a  plot  among  them  to  assissinate  the  President,  I  thought  It 
was  my  duty  to  go  and  tell  him  what  I  knew,  at  the  same  time  giving  him  a 
new  assurance  of  gratitude  for  what-  he  had  done  for  me. 

Knowing   that   I   was   among   those   who   were   waiting   in   the   ante- 


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chamber,  he  sent  immediately  for  me,  and  received  me  with  greater  cor- 
diality and  marks  of  kindness  thani  could  expect. 

'I'  am  so  glad  to  meet  you  again,"  he  said;  "you  see  that  your  friends^ 
the  Jesuits,  have  not  yet  killed  me.  But  they  would  have  surely  done  it, 
when^I  passed  through  their  most  devoted  city,  Baltimore,  had  I  not  de- 
feated their  plans,  by  passing  incognito  a  few  hours  before  they  expected 
me.  We  had  the  proof  that  the  company  which  had  been  selected  and  or- 
ganized to  murder  me  was  led  by  a  rabid  Roman  Catholic,  called  Bryne; 
It  was  almost  entirely  composed  of  Roman  Catholics;  more  than  that, 
there  were  two  disguised  priests  among  them,  to  lead  and  encourage  them* 
I  am  sorry  to  have  so  little  time  to  see  you;  but  I  will  not  let  you  go  before 
telling  you  that  a  few  days  ago  I  saw  Mr.  Morse,  the  learned  inventor  ot 
electric  telegraphy;  he  told  me  that  when  he  was  in  Rome,  not  long  ago, 
he  found  out  the  proofs  of  a  most  formidable  conspiracy  against  this  coun- 
try and  all  its  institutions.     It  is  evident  that  it  is  to  the 

Intrigues  and  Emissaries  of  the  Pope 
that  we  owe,  in  great  part,  the  horrible  civil  war  which  is  threatening  tO 
cover  the  country  with  blood  and  ruins." 

Shortly  afterward  the  President  excused  himself  and  made  an  appoint- 
ment to  see  Mr.  Chiniquy  the  next  day  saying: 

"Please  come  again  tomorrow  at  ten  o'clock;  I  have  a  very  important 
question  to  ask  you,  on  a  matter  which  has  been  constantly  before  my  mind 
these  last  few  weeks." 

The  next  day,  I  was  there,  at  the  appointed  hour,  with  my  noble  friend 
who  said: 

"I  could  not  give  you  more  than  ten  minutes  yesterday,  but  I  will 
give  you  twenty  today.  I  want  your  views  about  a  thing  which  is  exceed- 
ingly puzzling  to  me,  and  you  are  the  only  one  to  whom  I  would  like  to 
speak  on  that  subject.  A  great  number  of  Democratic  papers  have  been 
sent  to  me  lately,  evidently  written  by  Roman  Catholics,  publishlngs  that 
I  was  born  a  Roman  Cahtolic,  and  baptized  by  a  priest.  They  call  me  a 
renegade,  an  apostate,  on  account  of  that;  and  they  heap  upon  my  head 
mountains  of  abuse.  At  first  I  laughed  at  that,  for  it  is  a  lie.  Thanks  be 
to  God,  I  have  never  been  a  Roman  Catholic.  No  priest  of  Rome  has  erer 
laid  his  hand  upon  my  head.  But  the  persistency  of  the  Romish  press  tO 
present  this  falsehood  to  their  readers  as  a  gospel  truth,  must  have  a  mean- 
ing.    Please  tell  me,  as  briefly  as  possible,  what  you  think  about  that." 

"My  dear  President,"  I  answered,  "it  was  just  this  strange  story  pub- 
lished about  you  which  brought  me  here  yesterday.  I  wanted  to  say  a 
word  about  it,  but  you  were  too  busy. 

"Let  me  tell  you  that  I  wept  as  a  child  when  I  read  that  story  for  the 
first  time.  For,  not  only  my  impression  is  that  it  is  your  sentence  of  death, 
but  I  have  from  the  lips  of  a  converted  priest,  that  it  is  in  order  to  excitd 
the  fanaticism  of  the  Roman  Catholic  murderers,  whom  they  hope  to  find, 
sooner  or  later,  to  strike  you  down,  they  have  invented  that  false  story  of 
your  being  born  in  the  church  of  Rome,  and  of  your  being  baptized  by  a 
priest.  They  want  by  that  to  brand  your  face  with  the  ignomious  mark  of 
apostacy.  Do  not  forget  that  in  the  church  of  Rome,  an  apostate  is  an 
outcast  who  has  no  place  in  society,  and  who  has  no  right  to  live. 
"The  Jesuits  want  a  Roman  Catholic  to  believe  that  you  are  a  monster, 


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An  Open  Enemy  of  God  and  His  Church 

that  you  are  an  excommunicated  man.  For  every  apostate  is,  ipso  facto 
(by  that  very  fact)  excommunicated.  I  have  brought  to  you  the  theology 
of  one  of  the  most  learned  and  approved  of  the  Jesuits  of  his  time,  Busen- 
baum,  who,  with  many  others,  say  that  the  man  who  will  kill  you  will  do 
a  good  and  holy  work.  More  than  that,  here  is  a  copy  of  the  decree  of 
Gregory  VII.,  proclaiming  that  the  killing  of  an  apostate,  or  an  heritic 
and  an  excommunicated  man,  as  you  are  declared  to  be,  is  not, murder; 
nay,  that  it  is  a  good,  a  Christian  action.  That  decree  Is  incorporated  in  the 
canon  law,  which  every  priest  must  study;  and  which  every  good  Catholic 
must  follow. 

"My  dear  President,  I  must  repeat  to  you  and  here  what  I  said  when 
in  Urbana,  in  1850.  My  fear  is  that  you  will  fall  under  the  blows  of  a 
Jesuit  assassin,  if  you  do  not  pay  more  attention  than  you  have  done,  till 
now,  to  protect  yourself.  Remember  that  because  Coligny  was  an  heretic, 
as  you  are,  he  was  brutally  murdered  on  the  St.  Bartholomew  night;  that 
Henry  IV.  was  stabbed  by  the  Jesuit  assassin,  Revaillac,  the  14th  day  of 
May,  1610,  for  having  given  liberty  of  conscience  to  his  people,  and  that 
William  the  Taciturn  was  shot  dead  by  another  Jesuit  murderer  called 
Gerard,  for  having  broken  the  yoke  of  the  pope.  The  church  of  Rome  is 
absolutely  the  same  today  as  she  was  then;  she  does  believe  and  teach, 
today,  as  then,  that  she  has  the  right  and  that  it  is  her  duty  to  punish 
by  death  any  heretic  who  is  in  her  way  as  an  obstacle  to  her  designs.  The 
unanimity  with  which  the  Catholic  hierarchy  of  the  United  States  is  on 
the  side  of  the  rebels  is  an  unconvertible  evidence  that  Rome  wants  to 
destroy  this  republic,  and  as  you  are,  by  your  personal  virtues,  your  popu- 
larity, your  love,  for  liberty,  your  position,  the  greatest  obstacle  to  their 
diabolical  scheme,  their  hatred  is  concentrated  upon  you;  you  are  the  daily 
object  of  their  maledictions;  it  is  at  your  breast  they  will  direct  their 
blows.  My  blood  chills  in  my  veins  when  I  contemplate  the  day  which  may 
come,  sooner  or  later,  when  Rome  will  add  to  her  other  iniquities. 

The  Murder  of  Abraliam  Lincoln 

When  saying  these  things  to  the  President,  I  was  exceedingly  moved, 
my  voice  was  as  choked,  and  I  could  hardly  retain  my  tears.  But  the  Pres- 
ident was  perfectly  calm.  When  I  had  finished  speaking,  he  took  the  vol- 
ume of  Busenbaum  from  my  hands,  read  the  lines  which  I  had  marked  with 
red  ink,  and  I  helped  him  to  translate  them  into  English.  '  He  then  gave 
me  back  the  book  and  said: 

"I  will  repeat  to  you  what  I  said  at  Urbana,  when  for  the  first  time 
you  told  me  your  fears  lest  I  would  be  assasinated  by  the  Jesuits:  'Man  must 
not  care  where  and  when  he  will  die,  provided  he  dies  at  the  post  of  honor 
and  duty.'  But  I  may  add,  today,  that  I  have  a  presentiment  that  God 
will  call  me  to  him  through  the  hand  of  an  assassin.  Let  his  will,  and  not 
mine,  be  done!"  He  then  looked  at  his  watch,  and  said,  "I  am  sorry  that 
t3  tv/enty  minutes  I  had  consecrated  to  our  interview  have  almost  passed 
away;  I  will  be  forever  grateful  for  the  warning  words  you  have  addressed 
to  me  about  the  dangers  ahead  to  my  life,  from  Rome.  I  know  that  they 
are  not  imaginary  dangers.  If  I  were  fighting  against  a  Protestant  South 
as  a  nation,  there  would  be  no  danger  of  assassination.  The  nations  who 
read  the  Bible  fight  bravely  on  the  battlefields,  but  they  do  not  assassinate 


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their  enemies. 

The  Pope  and  the  Jesuits, 

With  their  infernal  inquisition,  are  the  only  organized  power  in  the  world 
which  has  resource  to  the  dagger  of  the  assasin  to  murder  those  whom 
they  cannot   convince  with   their   arguments,    or  conquer   with   the   swor-rl. 

"Unfortunately,  I  feel  more  and  more  every  day,  that  it  is  not  against 
the  Americans  of  the  South  alone  I  am  fighting;  it  is  more  against  the 
pope  of  Rome,  his  perfidious  Jesuits,  and  their  blind  and  blood-thirsty  slaves, 
than  against  the  real  American  Protestants,  that  we  have  to  defend  our- 
selves. 

"Surely  we  have  some  brave  and  reliable  Rd^an  Catholic  officers  an  1 
soldiers  in  our  armies,  but  they  form  an  insignificant  minority  when  com- 
pared with  the  Roman  Catholic  traitors  against  whom  we  have  to  guard 
ourselves,^  day  and  night.  The  fact  is,  that  the  immense  majority  of  th- 
Roman  Catholic  bishops,  priests  and  laymen  are  rebels  in  heart,  when  they 
cannot  be  in  fact;  with  very  few  exceptions  they  publicly  in  favor  of  slav- 
ery. I  understand  now  why  the  patriots  of  Prance,  who  determined  to  see 
the  colors  of  liberty  floating  over  their  great  and  beautiful  country,  were 
forced  to  hang  or  shoot  almost  all  the  priests  and  the  monks  as  the  irre- 
cncilabie  enemies  of  liberty.  For  it  is  a  fact  which  is  now  evident  to  me 
that,  with  very  few  exceptions,  every  priest  and  every  true  Roman  Catholic 
is 

A  Determined  Enemy  of  Liberty 

Their  extermination  in  France  was  one  of  those  terrible  necessities 
which  no  human  wisdom  could  avoid;  it  looks  to  me  now  as  an  order  from 
heaven  to  save  France.  May  God  grant  that  the  same  terrible  necessity 
be  never  felt  in  the  United  States!  But  there  is  a  thing  which  is  very  cer- 
tain; it  is,  that  if  the  American  j)eople  could  learn  what  I  know  of  the  fierce 
hatred  of  the  generality  of  the  priests  of  Rome  against  our  institutions,  our 
schools,  our  most  sacred  rights,  and  our  so  dearly  bought  liberties,  they 
would  drive  them  away,  tomorow.  from  among  us,  or  the  would  shoot 
them  as  traitors.  But  I  keep  those  sad  secrets  in  my  heart;  3'^ou  are  the 
only  one  to  whom  I  reveal  them  for  I  know  that  yo  ulearned  them  before 
me.  The  history  of  these  last  thousand  years  tells  us  that  wherever  the 
Church  of  Rome  is  not  a  dagger  to  pierce  the  bosom  of  a  free  nation,  she 
is  a  stone  to  her  neck,  and  a  ball  to  her  feet,  to  paralyze  her  and  prevent 
her  advance  in  the  ways  of  civilization,  science,  intelligence,  happiness  and 
liberty.     But  I  forget  that  my  twenty  minutes  are  gone  long  ago. 

"Please  accept  my  sincere  thanks  for  the  new  lights  you  have  given  me 
on  the  dangers  of  my  position,  and  come  again.  I  will  always  see  you  with 
a  new  pleasure." 

My  second  visit  to  Abraham  Lincoln  v.-as  the  beginning  of  June,  1862. 
The  grand  victory  of  the  Monitor  over  the  Merrimac,  and  the  conquest  of 
New  Orleans,  by  the  brave  and  Christian  Farragut,  had  filled  every  heart 
with  joy;  I  wanted  to  unite  my  feeble  voice  to  that  whole  country.  But  I 
found  him  so  busy  that  I  could  only  shake  hands  with  him. 

Chinquy's  Last  Visit  to  Lincoln. 

The  third  and  last  time  I  went  to  pay  my  respects  to  the  domed  Pres- 
ident and  to  warn  him  against  the  impending  dangers  which  I  knew  were 
threatening  him,  was  on  the  morning  of  June  8th,  1864,  when  he  was  ab- 


BOlutely  besieged  by  the  people  who  wanted  to  see  him.     After  a  kind  and 
warm  shaking  of  hands,  he  said: 

"I  am  much  pleased  to  see  you  again.  But  it  is  impossible,  to-day,  to 
Bay  anything  more  than  this.  To-morrow  afternoon  I  will  receive  the  del- 
egation of  deputies  of  all  loyal  States,  sent  to  officially  announce  the  desire 
of  the  country  that  I  should  remain  the  President  for  four  years  more.  I 
invite  you  to  be  present  with  them  at  that  interesting  meeting.  You  will 
see  some  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  our  republic,  and  I  will  be  glad  to 
introduce  you  to  them.  You  will  not  present  yourself  as  a  delegate  of  the 
people,  but  only  as  the  guest  of  the  President;  and,  that  there  may  be  no 
trouble,  I  will  give  you  this  card  with  a  permit  to  enter  the  delegation. 
But  do  not  leave  Washington  before  I  se  you  again;  I  have  some  important 
matters  on  which  I  wish  to  know  your  mind." 

The  next  day  it  w^as  my  privilege  to  have  the  greatest  honor  ever  re- 
ceived by  me.  The  good  President  wanted  me  to  stand  at  his  right  hand 
when  he  received  the  delagation,  and  heard  the  adress  presented  by  Govenor 
Denison,  the  President  of  the  Convention,  to  which  he  replied  in  his  own 
admirable  simplicity  and  eloquence,  finishing  by  one  of  his  most  witty  anec- 
dotes. "I  am  reminded  in  this  convention  of  a  story  of  an  old  Dutch  farmer 
who  remarked  to  a  companion,  wisely,  "that  it  was  not  best  to  swap  horses 
when  crossing  a  stream." 

The  next  day  he  kindly  took  me  with  him  in  his  carriage  when  visiting 
the  30,000  wounded  soldiers  picked  up  on  the  battle-fields  of  the  seven 
days'  battle  around  Richmond,  where  Grant  was  just  breaking  the  backbone 
of  the  rebellion.  On  the  way  to  and  from  the  hospitals  I  could  not  talk 
much.  The  noise  of  the  carriage  rapidly  drawn  on  the  pavement  was  to 
great,  besides  that,  my  soul  was  so  much  distressed  and  my  heart  so  much 
broken  by  the  sight  of  the  horrors  of  that  fratricidal  war,  that  my  voice  was 
as  Btiffled.  The  only  thought  which  seemed  to  occupy  the  mind  of  the  Pres- 
ident was  the  part  which  Rome  had  in  that  horrible  struggle.  Many  times 
tie  repeated: 

"This  war  would  never  have  been  possible  without  the  sinister  influence 
of  the  Jesuits.  We  owe  it  to  popery  that  we  now  see  our  land  reddened 
with  the  blood  of  her  noblest  sons.  I  pity  the  priests,  the  bishops,  and  the 
monks  of  Rome  in  the  United  States  when  the  people  realize  that  they  are 
in  great  part  responsible  for  the  tears  and  blood  shed  in  this  war;  the  later, 
the  more  terrible  will  theretribution  be.  I  conceal  what  I  knew  of  that  sub- 
ject from  the  knowledge  of  the  nation;  for,  if  the  people^ knew  the  whole 
truth,  this  war  would  turn  into  a  religous  war  and  it  would  at  once  take  a 
tenfold  more  savage  and  bloody  character.  It  would  become  merciless  as 
all  religous  wars  are.  It  would  become  a  war  of  extermination  on  both 
sides.     The  Protestants 

Of  Both  North  and  the  South  

would  surely  unite  to  exterminate  the  priests  and  the  Jesuits  if  they  could 
hear  what  Prof.  Morse  has  said  to  me  of  the.  plots  made  in  the  very  city  of 
Rome  to  destroy  this  republic,  and  if  they  could  learn  by  the  priests,the  nuns 
and  the  monks,  who  daily  land  on  our  shores  under  the  pretext  of  preaching 
their  religion,  instructing  the  people  in  their  schools,  taking  care  of  the  sick 
In  the  hospitals,  are  nothing  else  but  the  emissarries  of  the  pope,  of  Napol- 
eon, and  the  other  despots  of  Europe,  to  undermine  our  institution  alienate 


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the  hearts  of  our  people  from  our  constitution  and  our  laws,  destroy  our 
schools,  and  prepare  a  reign  of  anarchy  here  as  they  have  done  in  Ireland  in 
Spain,  and  wherever  there  are  any  people  who  want  to  be  free, etc." 

When  the  President  was  speaking  thus,  we  arrived  at  the  door  of  hlfl 
mansion.     He  invited  me  to  go  with  him  to  his  study,  and  said: 

"Though  I  am  very  busy,  I  must  ^-est  an  hour  with  you.  I  am  in  need 
of  that  rest.  My  head  is  aching;  I  feel  as  crushed  under  the  burden  ol 
affairs  which  are  on  my  shoulders.  There  are  many  important  things  about 
the  plots  of  the  Jesuits  that  I  can  learn  only  from  you.  Please  wait  just  a 
moment,  I  have  just  received  some  dispatches  from  General  Grant,  to  which 
I  must  give  an  answer.  My  secretary  is  waiting  for  m«.  I  go  to  him* 
Please  amuse  yourself  with  those  books  during  my  short  absence." 

When  he  returned  the  President  listened  to  my  words  with  breathless 
attention.     He  replied: 

"You  confirm  me  in  the  views  I  had  taken  of  the  letter  of  the  Pope 
Professor  Morse  is  of  the  same  mind  with  you.  It  is  indeed,  the  most  p  er- 
fidious  act  which  could  occur  under  present  circumstances.  You  are  per- 
fectly correct  when  you  say  that  it  was  to  detach  the  Roman  Catholics  who 
had  enrolled  themselves  in  our  armies.  Since  the  publication  of  that  letter 
a  great  many  of  them  have 

Deserted  Their  Banners  and  Turned  Traitor; 
very  few,  comparitively,  have  remained  true  to  their  oath  of  fidelity.  It 
is,  however,  very  lucky  that  one  of  those  few,  Sheridan,  is  worth  a  wholQ 
army  by  his  ability,  his  patriotism,  and  his  heroic  courage.  It  is  true.also, 
that  Meade  has  remained  with  us  and  gained  the  bloody  batle  of  Gettys- 
burgh.  But  how  could  he  lose  it  when  he  was  surrounded  by  svkch  heroes 
as  Howard,  Reynolds,  Buford,  Wadsworth,  Cutler,  Slocum,  Sickles,  Han^ 
cock,  Barnes  etc.  But  it  is  evident  that  this  Romanism  superseded  hia 
patriotism  after  the  batle.  He  let  the  army  of  Lee  escape,  when  it  wad 
easy  to  cut  off  his  retreat  and  force  him  to  surrender,  after  having'  lost 
nearly  the  half  of  his  soldiers  in  the  last  three  days,  carnagt 

"When  Meade  was  to  order  the  pursuit,  after  the  batle,  a  stranger  came 
in  haste  to  the  headquarters,  and  that  stranger  wa&  &  alguised  Jesuit.  After 
ten  minutes  conversation  with  him,  Meade  mads,  such  arrangements  for  the 
pursuit  of  the  enemy  that  he  escapes  almost  untouched,  with  the  loss  of  two 
guns. 

"You  are  right,"  coiicimrea  the  President,  "when  you  say  that  this 
letter  of  the  pope  has  ei^iirely  changed  the  nature  and  the  ground  of  the  war. 
Before  they  read  H  the  Roman  Catholics  could  see  that  I  was  fighting  a- 
gainst  Jeff  Davis  and  his  southern  Confederacy.  But  now  they  must  believe 
that  it  is  against  Christ  aad  his  holy  vicar,  the  pope,  that  I  am  raising  my 
sacriligious  hands;  we  have  the  daily  proofs  that  their  indignation,  their 
hatred,  their  malice  against  me  are  a  hundred-fold  intensified.  New  pro- 
jects of  assassination  are  detected  almost  every  day,  accompanied  with  such 
savage  circumstances  that  they  bring  to  my  memory  the  massacres  of  St. 
Bartholomew  and  the  gunpowder  plot.  We  feel,  at  their  Investigation, 
that  they  come  from  the  same  masters  in  the  art  of  murder — the  Jesuits. 

"Till  lately  I  was  in  favor  of  the  unlimited  liberty  of  conscience,  as  out 
constitution  gives  it  to  the  Roman  Catholics.     But  now  it  sems  to  me  that, 


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sooner  or  later,  the  people  will  be  forced  to  put  a  resolution  to  that  clause 
toward  the  papists.      Is  it  not  an  act  of  folly  to  give 

Absolute  L/iberty  of  Conscience 

0  a  set  of  men  who  are  publicly  sworn  to  cut  our  throats  the  very  day  they 
.:aye  their  opportunity  for  doing  it?  Is  it  right  to  give  the  privilege  ot 
'  itizenship  to  men  who  are  the  sworn  and  public  enemies  of  our  constitution 
our  law^s,   our  liberties  and  our  lives? 

"The  very  moment  that  popery.assumed  the  right  of  life  and  death  on 
M  citizen  of  France,  Spain  Germany,  England,  or  the  United  States.     Those 

tates  then  commited  a  suicidal  act  by  allowing  popery  to  put  a  foot  on  their 

■  aritory  with  the  privilege  of  citizenship.      The  power  of  life  and  death  is 

■  he  suqrejue  power,  and  tv,-o  supreme  powers,  cannot  exist  on  the  same  ter- 
-itory  without  anarchy,  riots, bloodshed,  and  civil  w^ars  without  end.  When 
^•opery  will  give  up  the  power  of  life  and  death  which  is  proclaims  as  its  own 

livine  power  in  all  its  theological- books  and  canon  law^s,  then  alone  it  can 
he  tolerated  and  can  receive  the  privilege  of  citizenship  in  a  free  country. 

It  is  not  an  absurdity  to  give  a  man  a  thing  which  he  is  sworn  to  hate, 
curse  and  destroy?  And  does  not  the  Church  of  Rome  hate,  curse  and  de- 
stroy liberty  of  conscience  whenever  she  can  do  it  safely? 

"I  am  for  liberty  of  conscience  in  its  noblest,  broadest  highest  sence. 
But  I  cannot  give  liberty  of  conscience  to  the  pope  or  his  followers,  the  pap- 
ists, so  long  as  they  tell  me,  through  all  their  councils,  theologians  and 
canon  law^,  that  their  coscience  orders  them  to  burn  my  wife,  strangle  my 
children,  and  cut  my  throat  when  they  find  the  opportunity! 

"This  does  not  seem  to  be  understood  by  the  people  to-day.  But  sooner 
or  later  the  light  of  common  sense  will  make  it  clear  to  every  one  that  no 
liberty  of  conscience  can  be  granted  to  men  w^ho  are  sworn  to  obey  a  pope 
who  pretends  to  have  the  right  to  put  to  death  those  who  differ  from  his  re- 
ligion. 

"You  are  not  the  first  to  warn  me  against 

The   Dangers  of  Assassintion. 
My  ambassadors  In  Italy,  France  and  England,  as  well  as  Prof.  Morse,  have 
many  times  warned  me  against  the  plots  of  the  murderers  whom  they  have 
tietected  in  those  different  countries. '    But  I  see  no  other  safeguard  against 
those  murderers  but  to  be  always  ready  to  die." 

Much  more  was  said  by  the  President  at  this  interview  of  a  religious 
character, in  which  Mr.  Lincoln  expressed  his  conviction  that  he  would  die 
by  the  hand's  of  a  Jesuit  assassin,  just  as  soon  as  the  peace  should  be  de- 
clared.    After  w^hich  Mr.  Chiniquy.bade  him  adieu  for  the  last  time. 


Later  on  Mr.  Chiniquy  says:  "More  than  once  I  felt  as  if  I  were  in 
the  presence  of  an  old  prophet  when  listening  to  his  views  about  the  future 
destines  of  the  United  States,"  and  gives  the  following  from  the  President, 
which  w-e  select  as  being  very  important: 

^  "You  are  almost  the  only  one  with  whom  I  speak  freely  on  that  s-ubject. 
But' sooner  or  later  the  nation  will  know  the  real  origin  of  those  rivers  of 
blood  and  tears  which  are  spreading  desolation  and  death  .everywhere.  And 
tlien  those  who  have  caused  those  desolations  and  disasters  wil  be  called 
to  give  an  account  of  them. 

"I  do  not  pretend  to  be  a  prophet.     But  though  not  a  prophet,  I  see 


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a  very  dark  cloud  on  our  horizon.  And  that  dark  cloud  is  coming  from 
Rome.  It  is  filled  vvith  tears  of  blood.  It  will  rise  and  increase  till  its 
flanks  will  be  torn  by  a  flash  of  lightning,  followed  by  a  fearful  peal  of 
thunder.  Then  a  cyclone  such  as  the  world  has  never  seen  will  pass  over  the 
country,  spreading  ruin  anddesalation  from  north  to  south.  After  it  is 
over  there  will  be  long  days  of  peace  and  prosperity,  for  popery  with  its 
merciless  inquisition,  will  have  been  forever  swept  away  from  our  country. 
Neither  I  nor  you,  but  our  children,  will  see  those  things. '- 
In  the  book  of  testimonies  given  in  the  persecution  of 

The  Assassination  of  L/incoln. 

published  by  Ben  Pitman,  and  in  the  two  volumes  of  the  trial  of  John  Surratt 
in  1867,  we  have  the  legal  and  irrefutable  proof  that  the  plot  of  the  assas- 
sins of  Lincoln  was  matured,  if  not  started,  in  the  house  of  Mary  Surratt, 
No.  5  61  H  street.  Washington  City,  D.  C.  But  who  were  living  in  that  house 
and  who  were  visiting  that  family?  The  legal  answer  says!  "The  most 
devoted  Catholics  in  the  city!"  The  sworn  testimonies  show  more  than 
that.  They  show  that  it  was  the  common  rendezvous  of  the  priests  of 
Washington.  Several  priests  swear  that  they  were  going  there  "sometimes" 
and  when  pressed  to  answer  what  they  meant  by  "sometimes"  they  were  not 
sure  if  it  was  once  a  week,  or  once  a  month.  One  of  them,  les  on  his  guard, 
swore  that  he  seldom  passed  before  that  house  without  entering;  and  he 
said  he  never  passed  less  than  once  a  week.  The  devoted  Roman  Catholic 
(an  apostate  from  Protestanism)  caled  L.  J.  Weichman,  who  was  himself 
living  in  that  house,  swears  that  Father  Wiget  was  very  often  there,  and 
Father  Lahiman  swears  that  he  was  living  with  Mrs.  Surrat  in  the  same 
house! 

What  does  the  presence  of  so  many  priests  in  that  house  reveal  to  the 
world?  No  man  of  common  sense,  who  knows  anything  about  the  priests 
of  Rome,  can  entertain  any  doubt  that  not  only  they  knew  all  that  was 
going  on  inside  those  walls,  but  that  they  were  the  advisers,  the  counselors, 
the  very  soul  of  that  infernal  plot.  Why  did  Rome  keep  one  of  priests 
under  that  roof  from  morning  till  night  and  from  night  until  morning?  Why 
did  she  s^nd  many  others,  almost  every  day  in  the  week,  into  that  dark  nest 
of  plotters  against  the  very  existence  of  the  great  republic,  and  against  the 
life  of  her  President, her  principal  generals  and  leading  men, if  it  were  not 
to  be  the  advisers,  the  rules,  the  secret  motive  power  of  the  infernal  plot? 

No  one,  if  he  is  not  an  infernal  idiot,  will  think  and  say  that  those 

priests,  who  were  the  personal  friends  and  father  confesors  of  Booth,  John 
Surratt,  Mrs.  and  Misses  Surratt,  could  be  constantly  there  without  knowing 
what  was  going  on,  particularly  when  we  know  that  every  one  of  those 
priests  was  a  rabid  rebel  in  heart.  ^  ^ 

Read  the  histories  of  the  assassination 'of  Admiral  Cofigny,  Henry  III. 
and  Henry  IV.,  and  William  the  Taciturn,  by  the 

Hired  Assassins  of   the  Jesuits; 

compare  them  with  the  assassination  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  you  will 
find  that  one  resembles  the  other  as  one  drop  of  water  resembles  another. 
You  will  understand  that  they  all  come  from  the  same  source — Rome. 

In  ail   those  murders  you   will  find   that  the  murderers,   selected  and 
trained  by  the  Jesuits,  were  of  the  most  exalted   Roman   Catholic  piety, 
living  in  company  of  priests,  going  to  confession  very  often,  receiving  the 


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communion  the  day  before,  if  not  the  very  day  of  the  murder.     You  will 

see  in  all- those  horrible  deeds  of  hell,  prepared  behind  the  dark  walls  of  the 

holy  inquisition,  that  the  assassins  were  considering  themselves  as  the 
chosen  instruments  of  God,  to  save  the  nation  by  striking  its  tyrant;  that 
they  firmly  believed  that  there  was  no  sin  in  killing  the  enemy  of  the  people 
of  the  holy  church  and  of  the  infallible  pope! 

Compare  the  last  hours  of  the  Jesuit  Ravaillac,  the  assassin  of  Henry 
VI.,  absolutely  refuses  to  repent,  though  suffering  the  most  horrible  tortures 
on  the  rack  with  Booth,  suffering  also  the  most  horible  tortures  from 
his  broken  leg,  writes  in  his  daily  memorandum,  the  very  day  before  his 
death:  "I  can  never  repent,  though  we  hated  to  kill.  Our  country  owed 
all  our  troubles  to  him  (Lincoln)  and  God  simply  made  me  the  instrument 
of  his  punnishment." — (Trial  of  Surratt,  vol.  1,  page  310.) 

Compare  the  bloody  deeds  of  those  two  assassins  and  you  vvill  see  that 
they  had  been  trained  in  the  same  school;  they  had  been  taught  by  the 
game  teachers.  Evidently  the  Jesuit  Ravaillac,  calling  all  the  saints  of 
heaven  to  his  help  at  his  last  hour,  and  Booth,  pressing  the  medal  of  the 
Virgin  Mary  on  his  breast  when  falling  mortally  wounded  (Trial  of  Surratt, 
page  310),  both  came  from  the  same  Jesuit  mould. 

Who  does  not  see  the  lessons  given  the  Jesuit  to  Booth,  in  their  daily 
Intercource  in  Mary  Surratt's  house,  when  he  reads  those  lines  written  by 
Booth  a  few   hours  before  his  death: 

"I  Can  Never  Repent: 
God  made  m.e  the  instrument  of  his  punishment."  Compare  these  words 
with  the  doctrines  and  principles  taught  by  the  councils,  the  decrees  of  the 
pope  and  the  laws  of  holy  inquisition,  as  you  find  them  in  chapter  55  of  this 
volume,  and  you  will  find  that  the  sentiments  and  belief  of  Booth  flows  from 
those  principles,  as  the  river  flows  from  its  source. 

And  that  pious  Mrs.  Surratt  who,  the  very  next  day  after  the  murder  of 
Lincoln,  said,  without  being  rebuked,  in  the  presence  of  several  other  wit- 
nesses: "The  death  of  Abraham  Lincoln  is  no  more  than  the  death  of  anj'' 
niger  in  the  army;"  where  did  she  get  that  maxim,  if  not  from  her  church. 
Had  not  that  church  recently  proclaimed,  through  her  highest  legal  and 
clval  authority,  the  devoted  Roman  Catholic,  Judge  Taney,  in  his  Dred-Scott 
decision,  that  negroes  have  no  right  which  the  white  is  bound  to  respect! 
By  bringing  the  President  on  a  level  with  the  lowest  nigger,  Rome  v/as  say- 
ing that  he  had  no  right  even  to  his  life;  for  this  was  the^  maxim  of  the 
rebel  priests,  who,  everyv/here,  had  made  themselves  the  echoes  of  the  sen- 
tence of  their  distinguished  co-religionist — Taney. 

It  was  from  the  very  lips  of  the  priests  who  were 

Co?>stantly  Coming  in  and  Going  Out 
of  their  houses,  that  chose  young  ladies  had  learned  these  anti-Chrlst^am  doc- 
trines. Read  in  the  testimony  concerning  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Surratt,  (p.  122-23) 
how  the  Jesuits  had  perfectly  drilled  her  in  the  art  of  perjuring  herself. 
In  the  very  moment  when  the  government  officer  orders  her  to  prepare  her- 
self, with  her  daughter,  to  follow  him  as  prisoners,  at  about  10  P.  M.,  Payne 
the  would-be  murder  of  Seward,  knocks  at  the  door  and  wants  to  see  Mrs. 
Surratt.  But  instead  of  having  Mrs.  Surratt  to  open  the  door,  .'^e  finds  him- 
self confronted  face  to  face  v.ith  the  government  detective.  Major  Smith, 
who  swearg.: 


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"I  questioned  him  in  regard  his  occupation  and  what  buslnes  he  had 
at  the  house  at  this  Jate  hour  of  the  night.  He  stated  that  he  was  a  laborer 
and  had  come  to  dig  a  gutter,  at  the  request  of  Mrs.  Surratt. 

"I  went  to  the  parlor  door  and  said:  'Mrs.  Surratt,  will  you  step  here 
a  minute?'  She  came  out,  and  I  asked  her:  'Did  you  iniQW  tbie  man, 
and  did  you  hire  him  to  come  and  dig  a  gutter  for  you?'  She  answered, 
raising  her  right  hand:  'Before  God,  sir,  I  do  not  know  this  man.  I  have 
never  sen  him,  and  I  did  not  hire  him  to  dig  a  gutter  for  me.'  "  (Assassi- 
nation of  Lincoln,  p.   122.) 

But  it  was  proved  after,  by  several  unimpeachable  witnesses,  that  she 
knew  very  well  that  Payne  was  a  personal  friend  of  her  son,  who  many  times, 
had  come  to  her  house  in  company  with  his  friend  and  pet,  Booth,  She  had 
received  the  communion  just  two  or  three  days  before  that  public  perjury. 
Just  a  moment  after  asking  it.  the  officer  ordered  her  to  step  into  the  car- 
riage. Before  doing  it  she  asked  permission  to  kneel  down  and  pray,  which 
was  granted,   (page  123.) 

Such  sang  froid,  such  calm  in  the  soul  of  Mrs.  Surrat  in  such  a  terrible 
and  solemn  hour,  could  only  come  from  the  teaciiings  of  those  Jesuits  who, 
for  more  than  six  months,  were  in  her  house  showing,  her  a  crown  of  eternal 
glory  if  she  would  help  to  kill  the  monster  apostate — Lincoln — the  only 
'cause  of  that  horrible  civil  war.  There  is  not  the  least  doubt  that  the 
kiling  of  Lincoln  was  a  most  holy  and  deserving  work,  for  which  God  had 
an  eternal  reward  in  store. 

There  is  a  fact  to  which  the  American  people  have  not  yet  given  a 
sufficient  attention.  It  is  that,  without  a  single  exception,  the  conspirators 
were  Roman  Catholics.  The  learned  and  great  patriot,  Gen.  Baker,  in  his 
admirable  report,  struck  and  bewildered  by  that  strange,  mysterious  and 
portentious  fact,  said: 

"I  mention  as  an  exceptional  and  remarkable  fact,  that  every  conspira- 
tor in  custody  Is,  by  education,  a  Catholic."  ""~ 

But  those  words  which,  if  well  understood  by  the  United  States,  would 
have  thrown  so  much  light  ou  the  true  causes  of  their  untold  and  unspeak- 
able disasters,  fell  as  if  on  the  ears  of  deaf  men.  Very  few,  if  any,  paid 
attention  to  them.  As  Gen.  Baker  says,  all  the  conspirators  were  attending 
Catholic  church  services  and  were  educated  Roman  Catholics.  It  is  true 
~that  some  of  them  as  Atzerodt,  Payne,  and  Herjold,  asked  for  Protestant 
ministers  v/hen  they  were  to  be  hung.  But  they  had  been  considered 
till  then  as  converts  to  Romanism.  At  page  43  G,  of  "The  Trial  of  John 
Surrott,"  Louir?  Weichmann  tells  us  that  he  was  going  to  St.  Aloysius 
church  with  Atzerodt,  and  that  it  was  here  that  he  introduced  him  to  Mr. 
Brothy,  another  Roman  catholic. 

It  is   a   well-authenticated   fact   that   Booth   and   Weichmann,   who   were 
themselves 

Protestant  Perverts  to  Roinanisin, 
lad  proselytized  a  good  number  of  semi-Protestants  and  infidels  who  eit.  >.' 
from  conviction  or  from  hope  of  the  fortunes  promised  to  the  success  J  I 
murderers,  v.'ere  themselves  very  zealous  for  the  church  of  Rome.  Payir, 
Atzerodt,  and  Herold^were  among  those  qroselytes.  But  when  those  m  V" 
derers  were  to  appear  before  the  country  and  receive  the  just  punishment; 


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of  their  crime,  the  Jesuits  were  to  shrewed  to  ignore  that  if  they  were  all 
coming  on  the  scaffold  as  Roman  Catholics,  and  accompanied  by  their  father 
confessors,  it  would  at  onc^  open  the  &yes  of  the  American  people  and  clearly 
siiow  that  this  was  a  Roman  Catholic  plot.  They  persuaded  three  of  their 
proselytes  to  avail  themselves  of  the  theological  principles  of  the  Church 
of  Rome,  that  a  man  is  allowed  to  conceal  his  religion,  nay,  that  he  may  say 
that  he  is  heretic  a  Protestant,  though  he  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  when  it  is  for 
his  own  interest  or  the  best  interests  of  his  church  to  conceal  the  truth  and 
deceive  the  people.     Here  is  the  doctrine  of  Rome  on  that  subject:  ^ 

Soepe  melius  est  ad  dei  honorem,  et  utllatatem  proximi.  tegere  fidem 
quam  frateri,ut  si  latens  inter  herticos.  plus  boni  facis;  vel  si  ex  confessione 
flde,  plus  mali  sequeretur,  verbi  gratia  turbatio,neces  exacerbotio  tyrannis." 
Llgouri  Theologia,  b.  il  .,  chap  iii.,  p.  6. 

"It  is  often  the  glory  of  God  and  the  good  of  our  neighbor  to  conceal 
our  religious  faith,  as  when  we  live  among  heretics  we  can  more  easily  do 
them  good  in  that  way;  or,  if  by  declaring  our  religion  we  cause  sdme  dis- 
turbances, or  deaths,  or  even  the  wrath  of  the  tyrant." 

The  great, the 

Fatal  Mistake  of  the  Aniesrican  Government 

In  the  prosecution  of  the  assassins  of  Abraham  Lincoln  was  to  constantly 
keep  out  of  sight  the  religious  element  of  that  terrible  drama.  Nothing 
would  have  been  more  easy,  then  than  to  find  out  the  complicity  of  the 
priests  who  were  not  only  coming  every  and  every  day,  but  who  were  even 
living  in  that  den  of  murderes.  But  this  was  carefully  avoided  from  the 
beginning  to  the  end  of  the  trial.  When  not  long  after  the  execution  of  the 
murderers,  I  went  incognito  to  Washington  to  begin  my  investigation  about 
its  real  and  true  authors.  I  was  not  a  little  surprised  to  see  that  not  a 
single  one  of  the  government  men,  to  whom  I  addressed  myself,  would 
consent  to  have  any  talk  with  me  on  the  matter  except  after  I  had  given 
my  word  of  honor  that  I  would  never  mention  their  names  in  connection 
with  the  result  of  my  investigation.  I  saw.  with  a  profound  distress,  that 
the  influence  of  Rome  was  almost  supreme  in  Washington. 

Several  of  the  government  men,  in  whom  I  had  more  confidence,  told 
me: 

"We  had  not  the  least  doubt  that  the  Jesuits  were  at  the  bottom  of 
that  great  iniquity.  Had  we  been  in  days  of  peace,  we  know  that  a  little 
more  pressure  on  the  witnesses  many  priests  would  have  been  compromised, 
for  Mrs  Surratt's  house  was  their  common  rendezvous  it  is  more  than 
probable   that   several   of   them   might  have  been   hung." 

But  if  any  one  has  any  doubts  of  the  complicity  of  the  Jesuits  in  the 
murder  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  let  them  give  a  moment  of  attention  to  the 
foliovv^ing  facts,  and  their  doubts  will  be  forever  removed,  it  is  only  from 
the  very  Jesuit  accompliced  lips  that  I  take  my  sworn  testimonies. 

It  is  evident  that 

A  Very  elaborate  Plan  of  Escape 

had  been  prepared  by  the  priests  of  Rome,  to  save  the  lives  of  the  assas- 
sins and  conspirators.  Let  us  fix  our  eyes  on  John  Surratt,  v;ho  was  in 
Washington  on, the  14th  of  April,  helping  Booth  in  the  preparation  of  the 
assassination.'    Who  will  press  him  on  their  bosoms,  put  their  mantles  on 


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his  shoulder  to  conceal  him  from  the  just  vengence  of  the  human  and  di- 
vine laws? 

The  priest,  Charles  Boucher  (Trial  of  John  Surratt  vol. 11,  p.904-912), 
swears  that  only  a  few  days  after  the  murder,  John  Surratt  was  sent  to  him 
by  Father  Lapierre,  of  Montreal;  that  he  kept  him  concealed  in  his  parson- 
age of  St.  Liboire,  from  the  end  of  April  to  the  end  of  July,  then  he  took  hini 
back  secretly  to  Father  Lapierre  who  kept  him  secreted  in  his  own  father's 
house,  under  the  very  shadow  of  the  Montreal  bishops, s  palace.  He  says 
(p.  905-914  )  that  Father  Lapierre  visited  him  (Surratt)  often  when  secret- 
ed at  St.  Liboire,  and  that  he  (Father  Boucher)  visited  him,  at  least  twice 
a  week  from  the  end  of  July  to  September,  when  concealed  in  Father  La- 
pierre's  house  in  Montreal. 

That  same  Father  Charles  Boucher  Swears  that  he  accompanied  John 
Surratt  in  a  carriage,  in  the  company  of  Father  Lapierre,  to  the  steamer 
"Montreal"  when  starting  for  Quebec.  That  Father  Lapierre  kept  him 
(John  Surratt)  under  lock,  during  the  voyage  from  Montreal  to  Quebec, 
and  that  he  accompanied  him  disguised,  from  the  Montreal  steamer,  "  Pe- 
ruvian".— Trial  of  John  Surratt,  p.  910. 

The  doctor  of  the  steamer  "Peruvian,"  L.  I.  .  McMillion,  swears  (vol. 
1,  p.  460)  that  Father  Lapierre  introduced  him  to  John  Surratt,  under  the 
false  name  of  McCarthy,  whom  he  was  keeping  locked  in  the  state-room, 
and  whom  he  conductel  disguised  to  the  ocean  steamer  "Peruvian,"  and 
with  whom  he  remained  till  he  left  Quebec  for  Europe,  the  loth  of  Sep- 
tember, 18  6  5.  . 

But  who  is  that  Father  Lapierre  who  takes  such  a  tender,  I  dare  say  a 
paternal,  care  of  Surratt?  It  is  not  less  a  personage  than  the  «anon  of 
Bishop    Bourget,    of   Montreal. 

He  is  the  confidence  Man  of  the  Bishop. 
He  lives  Vith  the  Bishop,  eats  at  his  table,  assists  him  with  his  counsel,  and 
has  to  receive  his  advice  in  every  step  of  life.     According  to  the  laws  of 
Rome,  the  canons  are  to  the  bishops  what  the  arms  are  to  the  body. 

But  where  will  those  bishops  and  priests  of  Canada  send  Surratt  when 
they  find  it  impossible  to  conceal  him  any  longer  from  the  thousands  of 
detectives  of  the  United  States,  who  are  ramsacking  Canada  to  find  out  of  his 
retreat?  Who  will  conceal,  feed,  lodge,  and  protect  him  after  the  priests 
of  Canada  pressed  his  hand  for  the  last  time,  on  board  of  the  "Peruvian," 
the  15th  of  September,  1865? 

Who  can  have  any  doubt  about  that?  Who  can  suppose  that  any  one 
but  the  pope  himself  and  his  Jesuits  will  protect  the  murder  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  in  Europe? 

If  you  want  to  see  him  after  he  has  crossed  the  ocean  go  to  the  Vatican 
at  the  dor  of  Rome,  and  there  you  will  find  him  enrolled  under  the  ban- 
ner of  the  pope  in  the  Ninth  Company  of  his  zouaves, under  the  false  name 
of  Watson  (Trial  of  John  Surratt,  vol.  i,  p.  492)  Qf  course  the  pope  was 
forced  to  withdraw  his  protection  over  him  after  the  government  of  the 
United  States  had  found  him  there,  and  he  was  brought  back  to  Washington 
to  be  tried. 

But  on  his  arrival  as  a  prisoner  in  th@  United  States,  his  Jesuit  father 
confesor  whispered  in  his  ear:  "Fear  not, you  wil  not  be  condemned!  Thru 
the  influence  or  a  high  Roman  Cthoiic  ladj^itwo  or  three  of  the  jurymen 


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^vill  be  Roman  Catholics,  and  you  will  be  safe."  / 

Those  v/ho  had  read  the  two  volumes  of  the  trial  of  John  Surratt/know 
•nat  never  more  evident  proofs  of  guilt  were  brought  against  a  n^urderer 
than  in  that  case.  But  the  Roman  Catholic  jurymen  had  read  t^e  "The- 
ology of  St.  Thomas,"  a  book  which  the  pope  had  ordered  to  be  taught  in 
every  college,  academy,  and  university  of  Rome;  they  had  learned  that  it  is 
the  duty  of  the  Roman  Catholics  to  exterminate  all  the  heretics. — St.  Thorn- 
s' Theology,  vol.  iv.,  p.  90. 

They  had  read  the  decree  of  the  councils  6f  Coilstence,  that  no  faith 

"'.as  to  be  kept  with  the  heretics.      They  had  read  in  the  council  of  Lateran 

hat  the   Catholics  who  arm  themselves  for  the  extermination  of  heretics 

have  all  their  sins  forgiven,  and  receive  the  same  blessings  as  those  who  go 

and  fight  for  the  rescue  of  the  Holy  Land. 

Those  jurymen  were  told  by  their  father  confesors  that  the  most  holy 
father,  the  Pope  Gregory  VII.,  had  solmenley  and  infallibly  declared  that 
the  "killing  of  an  heretic  was  no  murder." — Fure  Canonico. 

After  such  teachings,  how  could  the  Roman  Catholic  jurymen  find 
John  Surratt  guilty  of  a  murder  for  killing  the  heretic  Lincoln? 

The  Jury  Having  Disagreed,  No  Verdict  Could  be  Given. 
The  government  was  forced  to  let  the  murderer  go  unpunished. 

But  when  the  irreconceivable  enemeis  of  all  the  rights  and  liberties  of 
men  were  congratulating  themselves  on  their  successful  efforts  to  save  the 
I-fe  of  John  Surratt,  the  God  of  heaven  was  stamping  on  their  faces  the 
Liark  of  murder  in  such  a  way  that  all  eyes  will  see  it. 

"Murder  will  out,"  is  a  truth  repeated  by  all  nations  from  the  begin- 
ning of  the  world.  It  is  the  knowledge  of  that  truth  which  has  sustained 
^e  in  my  long  and  difficult  researches  of  the  true  authors  of  the  assassin- 
ation of  Lincoln,  and  which  enables  me  to-day,  to  present  to  the  world  a 
fact  which  sems  almost  miraculous,  to  show  the  complicity  of  the  priests 
of  Rome  in  the  murder  of  the  martyred  President. 

Some  time  ago  I  providentialy  met  the  Rev.  F.  A.  Conwell,  of  Chicago. 
Having  known  that  I  was  in  search  of  facts  about  the  assassination  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln,  he  told  me  he  knew  one  of  those  facts,  w^hich  might  perhaps 
throw  some  light  on  the  subject  of  my  researches. 

The  very  day  of  the  murder,"  he  said,  "he  was  in  the  Roman  Catholic 

Tillage  of  St.  Joseph,  Minnesota   State,  when,  at  about  six  o'clock  in  the 

s^fternoon,  he  was  told  by  a  Roman  Catholic  of  the  place  who  was  purveyor 

to  a  great  number  of  priests  who  lived  in  that  town,  where  they  have  a 

monastery,   that   the   State   Secretary,    Seward,    and   the   President   Lincoln 

had  just  been  killed.     This  was  told  me,"  he  said,  "  in  the  presence  of  most 

respectable  gentleman,  called  Bennett,  who  was  no  less  puzzled  than  me. 

As  there  were  no  railroad  line  nearer  than  40  miles,  nor  telegraph  office 

»>".Tjr  than  80  miles  from  that  place,  we  could  not  see  how  such  news  was 

rifcd  in  that  town.     The  next  day,  the  15th  of  April,  I  was  at  St.  Cloud,  a 

it^is  about  twelve  miles  distant,  where  there  are  neither  railroad  nor  tel- 

'  !^?ai»li.      I  said  to  several  people  that  I  had  been  told  in  the  priestly  village 

-d  <Sx.  Joseph,  by  a  Roman  Catholic,  that  Abraham  Lincoln  and  the  Secre- 

-.'^i-'v  Seward  had  been  assassinated*.      They  answered  me  that  they  had  l^eard 

nothing  about  it.     But  the  next  sabbath,  the  16th  of  April,  when  going  to 


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the  Church  of  St.  Cloud  to  preach,  a  friend  gave  me  a  copy  of  a  telegram 
sent  to  hifli-  on  the  Saturday,  reporting  that  Abraham  Lincoln  and  secretary 
Seward  had  been  assassinated  the  very  day  before,  which  was  Friday,  the 
14th  ,at  10  P.  M.  But  how  could  the  Roman  Catholic  purveyor  of  the 
priests  of  St.  Joseph  have  told  me  the  same  thing  before  several  witnesses 

Just  Four  Hours  Before  Its  Occurrence? 
I  spoke  of  that  strange  thing  to  many,  the  same  day,  and  the  very  next  day 
I  wrote  to  the  St.  Paul  "Press"  under  the  heading  of  "A  Strange  Coinci- 
dence." Sometime  later,  the  editor  of  the  St.  Paul  "Pioneer,"  having  de- 
nied what  I  had  written  on  that  that  subject,  I  addressed  him  the  following 
note,  you  may  keep  it  as  infallible  proof  of  my  veracity: 

**A  Strange  Coincidence! 

"At  6.30  P.  M.,  Friday  last,  April  14th,  I  was  told  as  an  item  of  news, 
8  miles  west  of  this  place,  that  Lincoln  and  Seward  had  been  assassinated. 
This  was  three  hours  after  I  had  heard  the  news." 

St.   Cloud,17th   of  April,    1865. 

'The  integrity  of  history  requires  that  the  above  coincidence  be  estab- 
lished. And  if  any  one  calls  it  in  question,  then  proofs  more  ample  than 
reared  their  sanguinary  shadows  to  comfort  a  traitor  can  now  be  given. 

Respectfully, 

F,  A.  CONWELL." 

I  asked  that  gentleman  if  he  would  be  kind  enough  to  give  me  the  fact 
under  the  oath,  that  I  might  make  use  of  it  in  the  report  I  intended  to  pub- 
lish about  the  assassination  of  Lincoln.     And  he   kindly   granted  my  re- 
quest in  the  following  form: 
State  of  Illinois,  Cook  County,  s.  s. 

Rev.  F.  A.  Conwell  being  sworn,  deposes  and  says  he  is  seventy-one 
years  old,  that  he  is  a  resident  of  North  Evanston,  in  Cook  County,  State  of 
Illinois  that  he  has  ben  in  the  ministry  for  fifty  six  years  and  is  now  one 
of  the  chaplains  of  the  "Seamen's  Bethel  Home"  in  Chicago; that  he  was 
chaplain  of  the  First  Minnesota  Regiment  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 
That  on  the  14th  day  of  April,  A.  D.  1865,  he  was  in  St.  Joseph,  Minnesota, 
and  reached  there  as  early  as  six  o'clock  in  the  evening  in  the  company 
with  Mr.  Bennett,  who  then  and  now  is  a  resident  of  St.  Cloud,  Minnesota. 
That  on  that  date  there  was  no  telegraph  nearer  than  Minneapolis,  about 
eighty  miles  from  St.  Joseph;  and  there  was  no  railroad  communication 
nearer  than  Avoka,  Minnesota,  about  forty  miles  distant.  That  when  he 
reached  St.  Joseph  on  the  14th  day  of  April,  1865,  one  Mr.  Linneman,  who 
then  kept  the  hotel  of  St.  Joseph  told  affiant  that 

President  Lincoln  and  Secretary  Seward  Were  Assassinated;  , 
that  it  was  not  later  than  half-past  six  o'clock  on  Friday,  April  14,  1865, 
when  Mr.  Linneman  told  me  this.  Shortly  thereafter,  Mr.  Bennett  came 
in  the  hotel,  and  I  told  him  that  Mr.  Linneman  said  that  President  Lincoln 
and  Secretary  Seward  were  assassinated;  and  then  the  same  conversation 
to  Mr.  Bennett  in  my  presence.  That  during  that  time  Mr.  Linneman  told 
me  that  he  had  charge  of  the  friary  or  college  for  young  men  under  the 
priests,  who  were  studying  for  the  priesthood  at  St.  Joseph.  That  there 
was  a  large  multitude  of  this  kind  at  St.  Joseph  at  this  time.  Affiant  says 
that  on  Saturday  morning,  April  15,  1865,  he  went  to  St.  Cloud  a  distance 
of  about  ten  miles,  and  reached  there  about  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning. 


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That  there  was  no  railroad  or  telegraph  communication  to  St.  Cloud.  When 
he  arrived  at  St.  Cloud  he  told  that  President  Lincoln  and  his  Secretary 
Sev/ard  had  been  assassinated,  and  asked  if  it  was  true.  He  further  told 
Henry  Clay  Wait,  Charles  Oilman,  who  was  afterward  Lieutenant-Governor 
of  Minnesota,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Tice,  the  same  thing,  and  inquired  of  them  if 
they  had  any  such  views;  and  they  replied  that  they  had  not  heard  anything 
of  the  kind. 

Affiant  says  that  on  Sunday  morning,  April  16,  1S65,  he  preached  in  St. 
Cloud,  and  on  the  way  to  the  church  a  copy  of  the  telegram  was  handed  him, 
stating  that  the  President  and  the  Secretary  were  assassinated  Friday  eve- 
ning at  about  nine  o'clock.  This  telegram  had  been  brought  to  St.  Cloud  by 
Mr.  Gorton,  who  had  reached  St.  Cloud  by  stage,  and  this  was  the  first 
intelligence  that  had  reached  St.  Cloud  of  the  event. 

Affiant  says  further  that  on  Monday  morning,  April  17,  1865,  he  fur- 
nished the  "Press"  a  paper  of  St.  Paul,  a  statement  that 

Three  Hours  Before  the  Event  Took  Place, 
he  bad  been  informed  at  St.  Joseph,  Minnesota,  that  the  President  had  been 
assassinated,  and  this  was  published  in  the"Press" 

FRANCIS   ASBURY   CONWELL. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  by  Francis  A.  Conwell,  before  me,  a  notary 
public  of  Kankakee  County,  Illinois,  at  Chicago,  Cook  County,  the  6th  day 

Though  this  document  was  very  important  and  precious  to  me,  I  felt 
that  it  would  be  much  more  valuable  if  it  could  be  corroborated  by  the 
testimonies  of  Messrs.  Bennett  and  Linneman  themselves,  and  I  immediately 
sent  a  magistrate  to  find  out  if  they  were  still  living,  and  if  they  remembered 
the  facts  of  the  sworn  declaration^  of  Rev.  Mr.  Conwell.  By  the  good  prov- 
idence of  God,  both  of  these  gentlemen  were  found  living,  and  both  gave  the 
following  testimonies:  — 

State  of  Minnesota, 
Sterns  County,  City 
of  St.  Cloud. 
Horace  B.  Bennett,  being  sworn,  deposes  and  says  that  he  is  aged  sixty-four 
years; that  he  is  a  resident  of  St.  Cloud,  Minnesota, and  has  resided  in  this 
county  since  1865;  that  he  is  aquainted  with  the  Rev.  F.  A.  Conwell,  who 
was  in  St.  Joseph,  Minnesota,  in  com^pany  with  Mr.  Frances  A.  Conwell; 
that  they  reached  St.  Joseph  about  sundown  of  said  April  14th;  that  there 
was  no  railroad  or  telegraph  communication  with  St.  Joseph  at  that  time, 
nor  nearer  than  Avoka.  about  40  miles  distant.     That  affiant,  on  reaching 
the  hotel  kept  by.  Mr.  Linneman,  went  to  the  barn,  while  Rev.  F.  A.  Conwell 
tion  of  President  Lincoln;   that  Linneman  was  present  and -substantiated 
entered  the  hotel;  and  shortly  afterward  affiant  had  returned  to  the  hotel. 
Mr.  Conwell  told  him  that  Mr.  Linneman  had  reported  to  him  the  assassina- 
the  statement. 

That  on  Saturday  morning,  April  15th,  affiant  and  Rev.  Conwell  came 
to  St.  Cloud  and  reported  that  they  had  been  told  at  St.  Joseph  about  the 
assassination  of  President  Lincoln; that  no  one  at  St.  Cloud  had  heared  of 
the  event  at  this  time;  that  the  first  news  of  the  event  which  reached  St. 
Cloud  was  on  Sunday  morning,  April  16th,  when  the  news  was  brought 
by  Leander  Gorton,  who  had  just  come  up  from  Avoka,  Minnesota; that  they 
spoke  to  several  persons  of  St.  Cloud  concernig  the  matter,  when  they  reach- 


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ed  there  on  Sunday  morning,   but  affiant   does  not  remember  who  those 
different  persons  were,  and  further  affiant  says  not. 

HORACE  P..  BENNETT 

Sworn  before  me  and  subscribed  in  my  presence  this  18th  of  October, 
A.  D.  1883. 

ANDREW  C.   ROBERTSON,   Notary   Public. 

Mr.  Linneman  having  refused  to  swear  on  his  written  declaration, 
which  I  have  in  my  possession.  I  take  only  from  what  it  refers  to  the  prin- 
cipal fact,  viz., that  three  or  four  hours  before  Lincoln  was  assassinated  at 
Washington,  the  14th  of  April,  1865,  the  fact  was  told  as  already  accom- 
plished, in  the  priestly  village  of  St.  Joseph,  Minnesota. 

He  (Linnemann)  remembers  the  time  that  Messrs.  Conwell  pnd  Bennett 
came  to  this  place  (St.  Joseph,  Minnesota),  on  Friday  evening,  before  the 
President  was  killed,  and  he  asked  them  if  they  had  heard  he  was  dead, 
and  they  replied  they  had  not.  He  heard  this  rumor  in  his  store  from 
people  who  came  in  and  out.      But  he  cannot  remeber  from  whom. 

October  2  0th,  18  83.  J.  H.  LINNEMAN. 

I  present  here  to  the  world 

A  Fact  of  the  Greatest  Gravity, 
and  that  fact  is  so  well  authenticated  that  it  cannot  allow  even  the  possibility 
of  adoubt. 

Three  or  four  hours  before  Lincoln  was  murdered  in  Washington,  the 
14th  of  April,  18G5,  that  murder  was  not  only  known  by  some  one,  but  it 
was  circulated  and  talked  of  in  the  streets  and  in  the  houses  of  the  priestly 
and  Romish  town  of  St.  Joseph,  Minnesota.  The  fact  is  undeniable;  the 
testimonies  are  unchallengeable,  and  there  was  no  railroad  nor  any  tele- 
graph communication  nearer  than  40  or  8  0  miles  from  the  nearest  station 
to  St.  Joseph. 

Naturally  every  one  asked:  "How  could  such  news  spread?  Where 
is  the  source  of  such  a  rumor?"  Mr.  Linneman.  who  is  a  Roman  Catholic. 
tells  us  that  though  he  heard  this  from  many  in  his  store  and  in  the  streets, 
he  does  not  remember  the  name  of  a  single  one  who  told  him  that.  And 
when  we  hear  this  from  him,  we  understand  why  he  did  not  dare  to  swear 
upon  it,  and  shrunk  from  the  idea  of  perjuring  himself. 


WM.  LLOYD  CLARK'S  LECTURES. 

Communities  desiring  a  series  of  lectures  that  will  meet  all  the  false  pre- 
tensions of  the  Papacy  and  put  political  Romanism  on  the  run  should  commu- 
nicate with  Mr.  Clark  at  Milan,  111.  The  following  subjects  are  masterpieces 
covering  every  phase  of  the  burning  question  of  the  hour: 

1.  Rome's  fij^ht  on  our  public  schools. 

2.  Luther's  fight  for  an  open  Bibl.e 

3.  Life  in  a  Roman  Monastery. 

4.  Life  in  European  Convents. 

5.  Life  in  American  Convents. 

G.     The  Pope's  industrial  Slave  System  or  the  House  of  the  Good  Shep- 
herd Exposed. 

7.  Romanism  and  Wl?ite  Slavery. 

8.  The  X-Ray  on  the  Roman  Hierarchy. 


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10.  The  Blight  of  Romanism  in  the  Philippines.  * 

11.  Protestant  Torch  Bearers. 

12.  Romanism  and  Civil  Marriage. 

13.  Uncle  Sam  or  the  Pope— Which? 

14.  A  Martyr  of  the  Twentieth  Century. 

15.  The  Invisible  Government  of  the  Pope. 

16.  Our  Martyred  Presidents. 

17.  My  Battle  With  the  Roman  Beast, 

18.  The  Modern  Inquisition, 

19.  Romanism  in  Old  Mexico,  (Illustrated  with  100  stereopticon  views). 

20.  The  Modern  Vatican,   (Illustrated  Vvith  100  stereopticon  views); 

21.  The  Life  of  Martin  Luther,  (Illustrated  with  80  stereopticon  views). 
23.  Roman  Theology  and  Priesthood  Corruption,  (For  Men  Only). 

Mr.  Clark  is  the  most  active  v/riter  and  speaker  on  the  Roman  Catholic 
Menace  to  our  free  institutions  in  America  today.  He  has  traveled  more 
miles,  made  more  speeches,  written  more  books,  faced  more  mobs  and  done 
more  work  for  God  and  humanity  than  any  other  man  before  the  American 
public  and  you  should  secure  him  to  present  this  subject  to  your  people. 

A  few  places  where  ]Mr.  Clark  has  spoken  to  the  multitudes  in  recent 
years:  Central  Christian  Church,  Cincinnati,  0.;  First  Baptist  Church,  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.;  Emanuel  Baptist  Church,  Little  Rock,  Ark.;  City  Hall,  Marshall, 
Tex.;  St.  John's  Lutheran  Church,  Des  Moines,  la.;  Grand  Army  Hall,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C;  Park  Place  Baptist  Church,  Hot  Springs,  Ark.;  Central  Presby- 
terian Church,  Detroit,  Mich.;  Masonic  Temple,  Chicago,  111.,  and  Masonic 
Temple,  Seattle,  Vv^ash. 

Unsolicited  Recommendations  from  Great  Men. 

Wni.  Lloyd  Clark  is  God's  battering  ram,  the  mightiest  piece  of  human 
artillery  we  ever  heard  or  saw. — Evangelist  L.  J.  King  in  Converted  Catholic 
Magazine. 

He  has  fired  millions  of  hearts  and  directed  ten  thousand  minds,  tongues 
and  pens,  and  his  work  is  now  at  its  very  best.  He  has  been  flaming  the 
torch  through  the  years  and  kept  the  fires  of  patriotism  burning  when  others 
allowed  their  lamps  to  go  out.  Blessings  on  his  devoted  head. — Rev.  J.  A. 
Scarboro  ijp  The  Liberator. 

It  is  a  rare  thing  to  listen  to  a  public  speaker  with  Mr.  Clark's  ready 
command  of  every  weapon  of  oratory  from  wit  and  humor  to  tears  and 
pathos,  and  woven  together  v.ith  the  consummate  skill  that  sincerity  and  faith 
in  the  mighty  revolt  against  modern  Romanism  has  given  him. — H.  George 
Buss  in  "Slaves  of  the  Godsmiths." 

Wm.  Lloyd  Clark  is  one  of  the  greatest  heroes  of  this  age. — Dr.  W.  H. 
Boles,  writing  in  The  Christian  Standard. 

I  wish  I  could  tell  you  just  how  much  I  do  love  you,  but  I  can't,  but  if 
you  have  the  brains  I  think  you  have,  I  am  quite  sure  that  you  know  that  I 
really  and  candidly  do  love  you  for  the  great  work  you  are  doing. — Col.  Dick 
Mapel,  author  of  "On  the  Road  to  Blissvilie,"  in  personal  letter  to  Mr.  Clark. 

Such  men  stand  for  great  principles — for  your  liberties  and  mine.  Mr. 
Clark  has  truthfully  been  called  the  Wendell  Phillips  of  the  Anti-Cathoiie 
movement. — Marvin  Brown. 

I  shall  remember  you  in  my  prayers,  that  the  blessed  Lord  will  spare 
your  most  worthy  and  profitable  life  to  fight  the  batttles  of  freedom  for  the 


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grand  old  Stars  and  Stripes  for  many,  many  years  to  come.  The  work  you 
are  doing  may  not  produce  visible  results  as  you  would  like  to  see,  but  rest 
assured,  my  dear  friend  Clark,  you  are  fighting  a  krave  battle  for  unborn 
generations,  and  some  day  beyond  the  turbid  stream,  I  believe  that  you  will 
enter  the  realms  of  endless  bliss  as  "having  been  faithful  over  a  few  things'^ 
while  upon  this  brief  and  turbulent  sphere  of  activity. — Lon  Davis,  Editor,  The 
Progress,  Acworth,  Ga. 

WM.  LLOYD  CLARK  SPEAKS  TO  BIG  AUDIENCE. 

With  every  foot  of  seating  space  occupied  and  scores  standing,  Hon.  Wm, 
Lloyd  Clark,  editor  of  the  "Rail  Splitter,"  of  Milan,  111.,  and  an  international 
speaker,  delivered  a  Protestant-American  address  yesterday  afternoon  in  St. 
John's  Evangelical  Church.  The  high  points  of  his  speech  were  enthusias- 
tically applauded  by  the  vast  audience.  He  spoke  for  more  than  an  hour  and 
closed  his  address  with  a  beautiful  word  picture  of  the  "curse  of  rum." 

He  paid  a  glowing  tribute  to  the  Protestant  denominations  and  the  spirit 
of  Americanism.  He  based  his  theme  upon  the  alleged  figurative  and  literal 
battles  he  had  in  many  sections  of  the  country  in  prosecuting  the  work  he  has 
been  doing  for  more  than  30  years  and  the  fight  he  has  put  up  in  delivering 
addresses. 

The  Rev.  Milton  M.  Brown,  pastor  of  the  Twentieth  Street  Methodist 
Church,  and  secretary  of  the  Lorain  County  Ministerial  Association,  i^itroduced 
Mr.  Clark.  He  delivered  a  brief  talk,  outlining  the  work  that  had  been  done 
by  Mr.  Clark  in  promoting  Protestantism. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  the  Rev.  Theodore  Merton,  pastor  of  St.  John's 
Evangelical  Church,  preceded  by  the  audience  singing,  "America." 

Mr.  Clark  in  closing  his  address,  said  that  plans  were  being  rapidly 
made  to  enlarge  the  "Rail  Splitter"  plant  and  that  it  is  expected  within  a 
short  time  the  paper  will  be  issued  weekly  instead  of  monthly. 

Mr.  Clark  has  been  speaking  in  various  local  Protestant  churches  for  the 
last  several  weeks  and  yesterday's  meeting  was  a  consummated  rally  of  his 
work  here. — The  Chronicle-Telegram,  Lorain,  0.,  April  25,  1921. 

January  29th,  1869,  William  Lloyd  Clark,  author,  lecturer  and  publisher^ 
was  born  at  Mt.  Sterling,  111.  His  parents  were  staunch  believers  in  the 
Bible  principles  of  Protestantism.  Special  mention  is  fitting  concerning  his 
mother,  who,  in  the  blessed  administration  of  a  mother's  duties,  so  carefully 
and  attentively  guided  the  early  steps  of  the  reformer;  taught  him  how  to 
pray  and  live.  To  this  tender  God-fearing  "Mother  in  Israel"  Mr.  Clark  is  much 
indebted  for  a  right  start  in  life,  as  well  as  for  whatever  success  marked  his 
pathway  in  after  years.  He  was  educated  at  Chaddock  College,  Quincy,  111. 
Later  he  studied  law,  preparatory  to  entering  the  legal  profession,  but  Provi- 
dence bad  decreed  otherwise.  Instead  of  becoming  an  advocate  of  the  "rights 
of  persons  and  things"  he  was  called  to  defend  and  advocate  the  Principles  of 
the  Reformation  at  the  Bar  of  Justice,  with  the  Judge  of  Judges  on  the  bench 
and  the  public  in  the  jury  box.  He  delivered  his  first  Protestant  lecture  about 
the  year  1888,  under  the  auspices  of  the  College  Literary  Society  of  ChadJock 
College,  Quincy,  111.  As  a  result  of  this  lecture  he  was  nearly  mobbed  the 
next  day  by  Roman  Catholic  stiidents.  A  few  years  later  he  assumed  manage- 
ment of  a  printing  and  publishing  plant  in  Quincy  (weekly  newspaper)  invest- 
ing his  capital  in  the  enterprise.    When  Rev.  J.  C.  White,  the  venerable  pioneer 


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Protestant  defender  of  American  institutions,  was  brutally  beaten  and  mobbed 
by  Romanists  Mr.  Clark  defended  the  preacher  in  his  right  of  free  speech  in 
the  columns  of  his  paper  to  th.e  displeasure  of  the  priesthood.  In  a  few 
days  a  committee  of  Romish  priests  called  on  Mr.  Clark  (as  they  do  upon 
editors  in  most  cases  when  Romish  mobs  and  papal  methods  are  exposed)  and 
tried  to  force  an  apology  for  the  article.  But  they  met  the  wrong  man  in  the 
editor's  chair.  Clark  refused  to  apologize  for  telling  the  truth.  This  meant 
suicide  for  the  paper.  Rome  whipped  the  boycott  devil  into  the  harness  and 
broke  up  the  enterprise.  But  this  did  not  stop  the  progress  of  young  Clark; 
it  rather  led  him  more  actively  into  the  calling  that  should  mark  the  future 
of  his  labors.  He  now  took  to  the  platform  in  churches  and  halls  in  defense 
of  Liberty  of  Speech  and  the  Freedom  of  the  Press.  Crowds  gathered,  multi- 
tudes were  awakened  and  educated  upon  the  principles  of  Romanism.  The 
North  Central  section  of  the  United  States  became  his  field.  When  no  halls 
could  be  secured  he  went  to  the  street  coi'ner.  mounted  a  soap  box  and  times 
without  number  bared  his  breast  to  howling  mobs  and  blood-thirsty  throngs 
of  Romanists,  often  meeting  with  violent,  rough  treatment.  Several  times 
he  was  nearly  killed,  often  stoned,  struck  with  clubs  and  other  missiles,  kicked, 
battered  and  bruised,  many  times  arrested  at  the  instance  of  Roman  officials, 
thrown  into  jail  and  fined,  but  always  standing  his  ground  until  liberty  was 
secured  and  the  priesthood  put  to  flight.  Early  in  his  career  he  commenced 
to  publish  books,  papers  and  tracts  on  the  Roman  question  until  it  is  known 
today  that  hundreds  of  thousands  of  his  publications  are  being  read  in 
American  homes.  Continual  labor  and  always  untiring  in  his  efforts  for 
American  liberties  has  marked  his  life;  when  others  grew  weary  from  the 
heat  of  the  battle  he  still  trudged  on  to  receive  the  marks  and  scars  that 
adorn  his  body  as  a  token  to  his  valor  while  on  picket  duty,  warning  the 
slumbering  ranks  of  Protestantism.  He  has  traveled  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  miles  by  wagon,  boat  and  rail,  delivering  lectures  "along  the  vvay."  Mr. 
Clark  resides  at  Milan,  111.,  and  enjoys  the  blessing  of  a  noble  wife  for  a 
helper  in  his  battles.  Three  boys,  all  workers  in  his  publishing  plant,  complete 
the  family  circle.  It  is  here  in  a  country  home  that  wounds  are  healed  and 
strength  renewed. — From  Martyrs  and  Witnesses,  by  Ford  Hendrickson. 

To  build  up  your  organization,  win  your  compaigns  and  put  your  Protest- 
ant work  on  a  successful  basis  you  should  have  a  Clark  campaign.  Get  a 
few  good  live  people  organized  into  a  committee.  Organize  your  forces  so 
you  can  properly  distribute  the  advertising  matter  we  send  and  make  sure  of 
your  building — some  good  hall  or  church  and  write  for  open  time.     Be  sure 

you  have  a  place  or  a  number  of  places  that  will  seat  good  audiences  before 

you  write.    Then  address  The  Rail  Splitter,  Milan,  111. 


PROPAGANDA  LITERATURE. 

It  is  apparent  tha,t  if  we  ever  whip  Romanism  in  this  country  there  must 
be  outlined  a  gigantic  campaign  of  education  among  the  masses  and  that 
without  further  delay.  The  Rail  Splitter  office  is  therefore  printing  in  large 
quantity  all  possible  kinds  of  propaganda  literature  such  as  can  be  iised  by 
the  workers  on  the  firing  line  to  the  greatest  possible  advantage  at  the  least 
possible  expense.  We  are  listing  here  literature  that  will  be  found  effective 
wherever  liberallj-  distributed. 


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Our  1921  Campaign  Bulletin. — The  Rail  Splitter  office  has  produced  a 
campaign  bulletin  that  should  have  a  circulation  of  at  least  three  million 
copies  this  year.  It  is  just  what  you  need  in  every  community  where  a  dupe 
of  the  Pope  puts  his  head  up  for  ofRce  or  where  the  Popes  start  a  campaign 
to  bleed  the  Protestant  people  for  money  with  which  to  build  and  operate 
their  foreign  and  treasonable  institutions  on  American  soil.  This  document 
is  the  most  vital  piece  of  propaganda  literature  ever  produced  in  this  coun- 
try. It  literally  cuts  the  gizzard  out  of  the  papal  system.  No  red  blooded 
American  Protestant  will  vote  for  a  Papist  or  donate  to  a  papal  enterprise 
after  he  reads  it.  Any  one  who  will  do  so  is  as  void  of  patriotism  and 
common  sense  as  a  Hottentot  or  a  Digger  Indian.  It  is  a  whirl-wind  docu- 
ment. It  gives  the  names  of  every  Papist  holding  a  position  of  trust  in  the 
army,  navy  or  general  government.  It  reveals  the  menacing  strength  of 
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thinking  people  like  the  midnight  cries  of  Paul  Revere.  It  contains  the 
views  of  the  greatest  statesmen,  sages,  scholars  and  reformers  of  the  past 
400  years  on  the  Papal  system  as  a  menace  to  civilization  and  a  vast 
amount  of  other  sentiment  making  and  vote  making  matter  that  cannot  be 
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ist is  running  for  ofl5ce,  or  where  the  Romans  are  making  a  money  drive  or 
where  the  Knights  of  Columbus  are  conducting  their  alleged  educational 
work  through  night  schools  or  where  Romanism  is  an  issue  this  document 
should  be  circulated  in  every  home,  both  Catholic  and  Protestant.  It  is 
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member  or  preacher  v/lio  pretends  to  see  no  danger  to  our  American  insti- 
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time  servers,  male  harlots  and  Papal  toe  kissers  who  were  grafting  and  cor- 
rupting his  state  and  making  it  a  den  of  thieves  and  as  a  rew^ard  for  this 
service  to  humanity  he  w^as  framed  and  sent  to  prison  for  three  and  one-half 
years.  An  aspirant  to  journalistic  fame  asked  Brisbane  what  book  to  read 
in  order  that  he  become  a  master  of  vigorous  language  and  the  noted  writer 
advised  the  reading  of  "Pilgrim's  Progress,"  that  the  literature  produced  in 
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WHY  I  AM  WHAT  I  AM. 
By  Fourteen  Clergymen  and  One  Agnostic 

This  great  book  contains  fifteen  chapters  in  all.  Fourteen  prominent 
clergymen  each  one  representing"  a  different  belief  or  denomination  tells  why 
be  is  what  he  is.  There  is  a  finishing  chapter  by  Robert  G.  IngersoU  telling 
why  he  is  an  Agnostic.     The  chapters  are  as  follows: 

WHY  I  AM  A  BAPTIST.    By  Rev.  R,  S.  MacArthur,  D.  D. 

WHY  I  AM  A  PRESBYTERIAN.  By  Rev.  Charles  Seymour  Robin- 
son, D.  D. 

WHY  I  AM  A  METHODIST.    By  Rev.  G.  H.  McGrew. 

WHY  I  AM  AN  EPISCOPALIAN.    By  Rev.  Wm.  R,  Huntington. 

WHY  I  AM  A  CATHOLIC.    By  Rev.  Walter  Elliott,  C.  S.  P. 

_    WHY  I  AM  A  CONGREGATIONALIST.    By  Rev.  Laymond  Abbott. 

WHY  I  AM  A  UNIVERSALIST.    By  Rev.  Charles  H.  Eaton. 

WHY  I  AM  A  NEW-CHURCHMAN.    By  Rev.  S,  S.  Seward. 

WHY  I  AM  A  UNITARIAN.    By  Rev.  John  W'hite  Chadwick. 

WHY  I  AM  A  JEW.    By  Rev.  Dr.  Gustav  Gottheil. 

WHY  I  AM  A  LUTHERAN.    By  Rev.  Fred  G.  F.  Krotel, 

WHY  I  AM  A  FRIEND.    By  John  J.  Cornell. 
Y  I  AM  A  DISCIPLE.    By  Rev.  B.  B.  Tyler. 

WHY  I  AM  A  SEVENTY  DAY  BAPTIST.    Bv  Rev.  A.  H.  Lewis. 

CRUMBLING  CREEDS.    By  Col.  Robert  G.  IngersoU. 

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How    to    Be    an    Orator 25 

Taxation    of    Church    Property 25 

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THE  SCARLET  BOOK  OF  FREEMASONRY 


rvu.^.V.-KWs..^...s.v>^<^^^-^^^^vv-.-^^--^^^^^^^ 


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and  'authentic  account  of  the  impris- 
onment, torture  and  martyrdom  of 
Free  Masons  and  Knights  Templar, 
for  the  past  six  hundred  years;  also 
an  auhtentic  account  of  the  educa- 
tion, remarkable  career,  and  tragic 
death  of  the  renowned  philosopher 
Pythagoras.  Recent  persecutions  and 
death  of  Free  Masons  in  Europe.  Kid- 
napping, imprisonment  and  torture. 
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Templar  in  England.  Roman  Bishop 
incites  Papists  to  murder  eminent 
Free  Masons  in  London.  An  epi- 
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FIFTY  YEARS  IN  THE  CHURCH  OF  ROME 


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No  work  has  ever  been  issued  since 
the  time  of  Luther  which  gives  such 
a  comprehensive  and  truthful  picture 
of  the  designs  and  aims  of  the  Roman 


«     Catholic  Church  upon  the  liberties  of 


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Rome's  connection  therewith,  are 
most  exciting  and  startling.)  Togeth- 
er with  67  other  startling  chapters  of 
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Bible  and  the  Priests  of  Rome;  The 
Confession  of  Children;  Festivities  in 
a  Parsonage;  Protestant  Children  in 
Convents;  The  Trade  in  the  Masses; 
Rome  and  Education;  Grand  Dinner 
of  the  Priests;  The  Abominations  of 
Auricular  Confession;  the  Impuri- 
ties of  the  Theology  of  Rome;  The 
Miracles  of  Rome;  The  Vow  of  Celi- 
bacy; Perversion  of  Dr.  Newman;  In- 
trigues, Impostures  and  Criminal 
Lives  of  the  Priests. 


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^'COMMON  SEXSE/' 
We  must  return  to   the  old-fashioned   '"0001111011   Sense"   of  American 
Tradition.    Dr.  Grant,  the  noted  New  York  minister,  is  proud  of  his  old-fash- 
ioned Americanism.      He  says  we  must  all  return  to  the  lofty  ideals  of  ttie 
brave  patriots  who  gave  birth  to  the  United  States  of  America.      We  must 
return  quickly,  because  amibitious  politicians  at  Washington  seem  to  have 
the  perfectly  sane  idea  that  they  may  gain  new  honors  and  new  powers  if 
they  can  ride  on  a  wave  of  anti-Americanism.      Such  politician^,  using  the 
pretense  of  law  and  order,  violate  the  very  spirit  of  law  and  order.     The 
back-wash   of   the   war   includes   a   vast   amount   of    tyranny   in    a   country 
-       A  A   A  A    AjtB       whose  traditions  are  foreign  to  tyranny.      Our  coun- 
^t.^^ffpfMy^^^pM|      try   was   founded  by  men   like  George  Washington, 
pii'iai J'TlHi^SI  W      Thomas  Jefferson,  Benjamin  Franklin  and  Thomas 
^SBiBS^^^!Sife^''B^     Paine — men  who  "hated   the  tyranny  of  the  British 
^^^^^^^^^sH^fe     crown  and  did  not  fear  to  face  the  issue.      In  order 
yiiB^jdjR^^^^I|S^W    for  us  of  the  20th  century  to  restore  our  shattered 
Hji^^^^H|  liberties   we   must   study   and    understand    the   lofty 

^^^^^^^^9  idealism    of   the   revolutionary   patriots.      And    it   is 

I^^^^^^B  for  this  reason  that  we  are  offering  Thomas  Paine'a 

^B  '  ^^  ^M  great  political  book,  entitled  "Common  Sense,"  the 

^^^M-         ^^^^  piece    of    literature    that    made    the    Declaration    of 

^^^^S^^^^^^        Independence    possible.      Early    in    the    year    1776 
^^^^^B^-^^^~-^^^^    Thomas   Paine  issued   "Common   Sense,"   which   de- 
'^^^^^""'  '^■■""'^^^^    manded  no  petty  reforms  or  trifling  concessions,  bu< 
A  absolute     and     complete     independence.     "Common 

*  Sense"  was  a  moving  document.    It  was  written  in 

clear,  beautiful  English  and  its  logic  was  a  masterpiece.  Americans  who 
love  their  country  and  who  cherish  ideals  of  freedom  should  read  "Common 
Sense,"  the  most  glorious  political  book  ever  published.  "Common  Sense" 
made  an  immediate,  tremendous  sensation.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  every 
person  who  took  the  slightest  interest  in  what  was  happening  in  those 
stirring  times  that  tried  men's  souls  made  it  a  sacred  duty  to  read  Tom 
Paine's  "Common  Sense."  Edition  after  edition  poured  off  the  press  and 
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THE  RAIL  SPLITTER. 

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indispensible  to  every  loyal  red-blooded  American.  We 
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to  our  liberties  as  the  Cobra  of  India  is  deadly  to 
human  life.  The  enemy  is  thoroughly  organized,  led 
by  shrewd  and  resourceful  schemers  and  is  backed  by 
untold  wealth.  Romanism  and  civil  liberty  will  not 
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foundation  for  the  teachings  of  Rome,  either  in  reason  or  revelation.  His 
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Huguenots  by  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  constitute  the  narrative.  The 
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misery  inflicted  upon  these  people  whose  only  offense  was  an  unalterable 
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LET'S  KEEP  LINCOLN'S  WORDS  BEFORE  THE  PEOPLE 

Tne  Rail  Splitter  office  has  become  the  American  center  for  mission'arv 
and  propaganda  literature  on  the  Papal  Question.     We  specialize  S  Wflets 

the  masses  for  educational  purposes.     The  Abraham  Lincoln  envelope  is  an 

nffiSKSffiWffiffiffiififfiffilfiffiffiffiffiffi  L^vT^oTd  ^m'a^fth^^s^fnds^ol 

'                 UNCOLN'S   WARNING  W  them    during    the    last    two 

"I  do  not  pretend  to  be  a  prophet.     But  Jfi  years  and  it  seems  that  they 

though  not  a  prophet,  I  see  a  very  dark  cloud  IC  have    jUst    Started    as    order«? 

on  our  horizon.      That   dark   cloud  is   coming  =0  avp   onrJryo'^^^Ur       w^      u 

from  Rome.   It  is  filled  with  tears  of  blood     It  Ui  ^^®   commg   daily.      We   shoW 

will    rise    and  ffl  ^^^   here   the  face  of  the   en- 
increase   till  Sn  velope  with  Lincoln's  picture, 

bl  ?o^^\;^a    K    ^l^     y^^^^     «f .  Y^^?^"S   ^« 
flash   of   light-     JfJ    "  """      '  "^      -----       ^^ 


closed  in  a  neat  border.    Ex- 
pert advertisers  tell  us  that 


ning,  followed  y;  pert  aavertisers  tell  us  that 
nL/r>f'?>f,^n^  2  ^^®  people  on  the  average 
Itf.  'kfr.  S  ^^^^  ^^«^y  envelope  fale 
cyclone  such  ■Ji  that  goes  through  the  mails, 
as  the  world  y-  Therefore  you  can  see  that 
wfirp^rove?  -  these  en  vplnn.«  ....  ^;.>,.. 
the  country, 
spreading  ruin 
and  desolation 
from  north  to 
south.  After  it 
is  over  there 
will  be  long 
days  of  peace 
and  prosperi- 
ty ;  for  popery, 


y; 


these  envelopes  are  a  mighty 
factor  in  reaching  the  people. 
Lincoln  was  the  greatest 
statesman  of  his  day  and  his 
fearless  words  carry  great 
weight.  He  saw  the  menace 
of  political  Romanism  and 
had  the  courage  to  lift  his 
voice  against  it.  Help  keep 
his  words  fresh  in  the  Ameri- 
can mind  by  sending  every 
letter  you  write  out  in  a  Lin- 


with  its  Jesu- 
its and  merciless  Inquisition,  will  have  been 
forever  swept  away  from  our  country.     Neither 

I   nor   you,    but   our   children,    will    see   these     rU     letter  you  Write  OUt  in  a  Lin 
^v^^®;      J^^"^  P*^®  '^^5'  Fi^t^  Years  in  the     Jfi     coin     envplonp        T  nro-o     Tinry, 
^^     Church  of  Rome,  by  Rev.  Charles  Chiniquy.)     g    Ws  are  usiSg  tljem?^^^^ 

of  Rome,;  by  Charles  Chiniquy,  the  Martin  Luther  of  thrwL\e?n  wo\ld^^^^ 
enjoyed  the  personal  esteem  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  If  we  save  America  it  is 
necessary  to  throw  every  ounce  of  vitality  we  have  into  this  fight  and  resort 
to  every  possible  means  of  legitimate  propaganda.  Therefore  we  are  asking 
you  to  make  every  letter  you  ^vrite  an  evangel  of  Americanism  by  using  the 
JZf^l%'   f    i^  doing  great  missionary  work.     They  are  printed  on  a  good 

footrl2.l^f  ifoootrt^^^^^^      '"  '^"""     ''  '"'  ^'''  '''  '^^  ''''^  ^^"  '' 

Thi.^?^^^T^^^'^P^'?  GREATEST  PERIL.-By  Augustus  Conrad  Ekholm. 
ims  is  an  eloquently  bound  volume  pointing  out  the  dangers  lurking  m  Vati- 
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archy ever  written.  It  points  out  the  vital  relations  between  true  religion 
and  world  progess  and  exalts  Christian  patriotism  as  the  world's  only  hope. 
It  is  historically  correct  and  logical.  Very  finely  bound  in  cloth.  Over  300 
pages.    Price,  $1.50.